Azure - General Knowlege

What is a 'resource' in Azure?

A manageable item that is available through Azure. Some examples are: virtual machines, storage accounts, web apps, databases, virtual networks.

Which Azure management tool analyzes resources and provides recommendations to optimize deployments? Azure Advisor Azure Recommend Azure Proactive Azure Optimize

Azure Advisor

Which Microsoft Azure cloud security tool can an enterprise use for key management? Azure GuardDuty Azure Lockdown Azure Key Management Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform aimed primarily at..

Azure Service Fabric helps an enterprise build, deploy and manage both containers and microservices. It is typically used for distributed apps that require reliability and scaling capabilities. It powers a large numbers of services, including Azure Cosmos DB, Cortana and Azure Event Hubs. The service supports clusters both on premises and in Azure.

Which of the following Azure products helps enterprises deploy and manage a hybrid cloud architecture? Azure Databricks Azure Pack Azure Stack Azure Hybrid

Azure Stack

Az Cli: Query for a resource group named 'myTestResourceGroup' as a filter

az group list --query "[?name=='myTestResourceGroup']"

Azure VMs and storage services fall under which of the following cloud computing models? IaaS PaaS SaaS All of the above

IaaS

Which company did Microsoft acquire to supplement its cost management service? RightScale Cloudify Cloudability Cloudyn

In September 2017, Microsoft acquired Cloudyn and baked it into its own Cost Management service to give customers increased visibility to optimize cloud usage and spend. Azure will maintain Cloudyn's support for other environments, including AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

What is meant by Microsoft Azure and Azure diagnostic?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing interface that is implemented by Microsoft so as to get benefited from the cloud computing. Azure diagnostics is an API based system that collects the data to diagnose the application which is constantly running. It tunes with the verbose monitoring by enabling roles of the cloud services.

What of the following capabilities does the Azure Migrate service NOT provide? - Assess cloud readiness - Estimate monthly cloud costs - Recommend cloud VM sizes - Migrate VMs

Migrate VMs - Azure Migrate is an assessment service that helps enterprises determine if they are ready for cloud and if the move meets their budgetary requirements. It also visualizes on-premises VM dependencies and recommends VM sizes. While it does not actually migrate VMs, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Database Migration Service can help complete that task.

What are the four resource group rules

Resources in a resource group share the same life cycle. Each resource can only exist in one resource group. Resources can be added or removed to a resource group at any time. Resources can be moved from one group to another. Resource groups can contain resources that reside in different regions. Resources can interact with resources in other resource groups.

On Sept. 4, 2018, Azure experienced an outage in the South Central U.S. region in San Antonio which left some cloud services offline for days. What caused the outage? Human error Severe weather Security breach All of the above

Severe Weather - High-energy storms triggered a power spike that caused the Azure data center to overheat and shut down. To prevent similar problems in the future, Microsoft said it will reevaluate its disaster recovery and backup methods, specifically asynchronous replication and active georeplication for Azure SQL and Azure Storage.

What four types of entities control resource groups.

Tags - categorize text labels Locks - prevents the accidental deletion/changes to resources within an RG. IAM - gives access to resources in a RG. Policies - controls a behavior or effect within a RG.

Azure Cognitive Services is made up of which five service components? - Speech, Language, Search, Video and Translation - Vision, Speech, Language, Search and Knowledge - Language, Translation, Vision, Knowledge and Audio - Knowledge, Translation, Audio, Visual and Speech

Vision, Speech, Language, Search and Knowledge APIs

Azure Storage offers how many storage tiers? 3 4 5 8

4